Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!psu-cs!probinso
From: probinso@psu-cs.UUCP (Pat Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: history/savehist variables in csh
Message-ID: <1703@psu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 89 19:12:00 GMT
References: <345@shapetc.UUCP>
Reply-To: probinso@psu-cs.UUCP (Pat Robinson)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR
Lines: 22

In article <345@shapetc.UUCP> ec@shapetc.UUCP (Enrico Chiarucci) writes:
>
>In my .login file I have the following lines (in a more or less vanilla
>Sun-2 flavour of unix):
>
>	set history=128
>	set savehist=16
>	source -h ~/.history
>
>wishing to keep 128 commands in the history file, but to save only 16 of
>them across login sessions.
>

Just put the set savehist=16 in your .logout not your .login.  You should
then only get 16 saved.


Pat Robinson     

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